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shearing

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for shearing.

Editorial note

Since we cannot describe a shearing motion in terms of a rotation+scaling+reflection then we no longer get the simple eigenvalue picture above.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of shearing gathered in one view.

noun

The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

noun

The material cut off in this way.

noun

Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shearing.

noun

The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

noun

The material cut off in this way.

noun

Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.

noun

The act or operation of dividing with shears.

Example sentences

1

Since we cannot describe a shearing motion in terms of a rotation+scaling+reflection then we no longer get the simple eigenvalue picture above.

2

Perhaps walking in California, but not walking in -40 with wind chill shearing your face off.

3

Street view navigation is smooth, quick and with a blur effect, while bing navigation is chunky, slow and has heavy shearing.

4

It certainly requires shearing off all commitments that might require you to have stuff.

5

The 3D geometry has potential, but the shearing/tearing is highly objectionable to me.

6

This is a bit more relevant to in-vivo reanimation enthusiasts, because the physical shearing should probably be algorithmically correctable in a scan scenario.

7

Linear transforms would act as an intermediary node for rotation, scaling, shearing, w/e.

8

For example, there is tracking head position and orientation, rendering without shearing and judder, latency issues, etc...

9

Black people do experience racism at so many levels of society, that when it comes to shearing excess resource with some white opportunists..

10

In Andrew Ng's Machine Learning class he talked about taking labeled images and expanding the set by inverting, shearing, flipping, distorting them etc.

11

For instance, diagonalizability is not necessary for invertibility---shearing transformations can be invertible.

12

And they do collect that scattered light on a streak camera - that performs shearing operation in the temporal domain (camera moves during capture).

Quote examples

1

You're more likely to see them in graph theory where structures of certain graphs induce "shearing".

2

Could substitute photos with cartoon images - but include a photo from "shearing day." Could also find a way to automate the content of status updates.

3

We were having a dna shearing issue in our lab, and I once asked, "what is the chemical mechanism of shearing" and no one could provide a convincing mechanism, which meant their solutions to the problem were not much better than shamanism.

4

It's not all that uncommon for physical servers to have their drives pulled and then subjected to a three-stage destruction process wherein they are first degaussed, then thrown into a "shearing" device which cuts them up into more manageable chunks before being "shredded" into fairly small chunks.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use shearing in a sentence?

Since we cannot describe a shearing motion in terms of a rotation+scaling+reflection then we no longer get the simple eigenvalue picture above.

What does shearing mean?

The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

What part of speech is shearing?

shearing is commonly used as noun.